Review(s) of: Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, by Richard Heinberg, New Societ... more Review(s) of: Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, by Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2009, 208 pp, ISBN 978-0-976-75106-9, A$41.95.
This thesis reports on a study of the stratigraphy, depositional settings and petrography of the ... more This thesis reports on a study of the stratigraphy, depositional settings and petrography of the Late Permian Illawarra Coal Measures in the southern Sydney Basin of New South Wales, eastern Australia. The depositional settings of the Sydney Subgroup, the upper of the two subgroups in the coal measures, are detailed as it contains the economic coal seams of the region. Thirteen modifications to the currently-accepted stratigraphic nomenclature are recommended in this study. These include changes to the definitions or status of some previously-defined units and the naming of several new units. Six depositional systems have been recognised using an hierarchical approach to facies analysis. The lowermost depositional unit, Deltaic System A, comprises the Pheasants Nest Formation and records a continuation of a regressive trend in the upper part of the marine Shoalhaven Group. This system is represented by widespread deltaic f acies which grade up-dip into alluvial fan and braidplain f ...
Review(s) of: Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, by Richard Heinberg, New Societ... more Review(s) of: Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, by Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2009, 208 pp, ISBN 978-0-976-75106-9, A$41.95.
This thesis reports on a study of the stratigraphy, depositional settings and petrography of the ... more This thesis reports on a study of the stratigraphy, depositional settings and petrography of the Late Permian Illawarra Coal Measures in the southern Sydney Basin of New South Wales, eastern Australia. The depositional settings of the Sydney Subgroup, the upper of the two subgroups in the coal measures, are detailed as it contains the economic coal seams of the region. Thirteen modifications to the currently-accepted stratigraphic nomenclature are recommended in this study. These include changes to the definitions or status of some previously-defined units and the naming of several new units. Six depositional systems have been recognised using an hierarchical approach to facies analysis. The lowermost depositional unit, Deltaic System A, comprises the Pheasants Nest Formation and records a continuation of a regressive trend in the upper part of the marine Shoalhaven Group. This system is represented by widespread deltaic f acies which grade up-dip into alluvial fan and braidplain f ...
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